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Handkerchief Has History Was Invented by Marie Antoine ette--Now Used As Decoration It was Marie Antoinette, the French queen who lost her head on the guillotine, who invented the handkerchief. e story goes that when this young Hapsburg princess was ready to leave Vienna for Versailles to ® wed the son of Louis XV, she burst into tears, and having no- thing on which to dry them, she tore off part of the square lace fichu from the neck of her dress, and with it wiped her eyes and cheeks. - Madame Dubarry, Louis XV's court favorite, took up the idea, and handkerchiefs became the fashion, even the king demanding one. As the ladies of the French court oft- +f en used this new invention to dust the powder off their black mouches or beauty patches, it became known as the mouchoir, Chinese Make Them The mouchoir became the hand: ® kerchief, most dear to every mod- 'ern woman and man, and one of their most important accessories ] with every type of costume. Right now the popularity of handkerchiefs is helping to keep rice in Chinese bowls for the un- declared war with Japan has stimu. lated one of China's leading export industries, needlecraft or hand-em- broidery and other handwork on linens, especially handkerchiefs. But in modern usage handker- chiefs are not only used for wiping away tears. In the pockets of suits and dresses they add a last dainty "touch; suspended from the wrist by a rhinestone bracelet they accom- pany formal dresses to concerts, dances, ete. Or tied, peasant-fash- jon over the head they take the place of hats and caps for sports or evening wear. Requirements Of Good Physician The Essential Things A Doctor : Needs Before He Can Be = A Good One Here are the essentials of a good doctor as detailed by Dr. Robert Hutchison, president of the Royal College of Physicians, London, in the Lancet: -- Good Health.--Not the athlete's type of health, but that sort of wiry constitution which is able to resist fatigue and infection, and § often goes with quite a poor phy- + " sique. Luck,--Pure luck is one of the chief factors making for happiness and success: Luck in your back- | ground, home and parents , . . above all, luck in your wife. But hard work and patience can make up to a large extent for the want of it. Brains.--It is unnecessary--per- | haps dangerous--in medicine to be too clever. But don't suppose that brains are of little account. Diligence.--The faculty of steady work, unhasting and unresting, will compensate for almost any lack of cleverness. ' ei Humor.--It will help you to bear with the vagaries of your patients and still 'more with those of thelr relations. Humor will save you ~ also from the two besetting sins of the doctor--faddery when he is young, pomposity when he is old. Arctic Indians Good Patients But Nurse at Fort Vermillion Says Diagnosis of Their Ills Often Difficult EDMONTON.--Jenny Balcourt, » 3 nurse at Fort Vermillion Hospital, 300 miles northwest of here, thinks northern Indians are "pretty good" patients although thelr taciturn at- titude often makes diagnosis of their ailments difficult. "Besides, you can't tell when they are pale," said Miss Balcourt. Nurse Balcourt flew with three. patients from Fort Vermillion to Edmonton. One of her charges, Peter Beachmas, 28, making his first trip to the outside werld, was literally '""dumbfoundéd" by the glimpses of the city. When They're Pale "He ig down fu the mouth about havibg to stay in bed and wants to be up and around," the nurse add- ' ed. Miss Balcourt whosc ability lo speak the Cree language, has Leen a great help in her work, said prac- = tically all her patients at Fort Ver- million are Indians, "I never say 80 many Indlags before in all my life. ft wap my first time that far north, and I got a real bang out of it." Native coal miners of Warkle, Rhodesia, sport shorts and flan- nels on Sundays. Northern Ireland is entertain ing thousands of tourisls this sca- son. fA A TEES fel FS hal I Coho cals I A s Yikade ky Peter Randal Neither had some of us. used to thinking that far-away fields are greener, more lovely than our Commentary on the Highlights of the Week's News , . « BOON FOR BUSINESS: If the West's 1938 wheat crop turns out to be as bumper as predicted, our prairie farmers are going to have money in their pockets again--to spend, to pay their debts with. Ca- nrdian business will be given a big lirt. It will help the railways out, too. Both the C.N.R. and the C.P.R, have long been saying that if the West could grow just one good crop, the revenues resulting from heavy freight hauling would cut operating losses and substantially reduce the railways' indebtedness. MATTER OF FACT--Little good though the Runciman mission to Czechoslovakia is likely to do, (the Czechs didn't even ask Prime Min- {ster Chamberlain to send him), this much is certain, that, while he 1s on the scene studying the situa. tion and preparing to arbitrate be- tween Germany and Czechoslovak- ia, Hitler cannot afford to make an open move against the little repub- lic. 'Twould be a bad breach of manners for him to do any such thing at a moment when he is courting the favor of the British, "The delay may be maddening to him, but Herr Hitler will just have to stand aside politely till Lord Runciman's through. But then, boys, ah! then . , , , WE'RE BEAUTIFUL--The well- known English landscape painter, F. M. de la Coze, arrived in Canada for the first time, is full of praises for our country. He had no idea it was so beautiful, We are own, We have developed an in- ferfority complex on the subject of our own country and its beauties; we roll our eyes in the direction of Europe or the States instead. Now that someone who should know has told us unequivocally that Canada is beautiful, we may learn to believe it, to feel pride and joy in our Canadian countryside, our own particular sweet corner of On- tario. BEHIND SCHEDULE--4he Chi- nese may not be such hot fighters but they are managing to hold their own against the Japanese invasion. Their aim now is not to drive the Japs out of the country in a big of- fensive but to draw them further and further afield till the Nipponese war machine can be finally stalled. When the undeclared war began, the Japanese military hecds had a schedule doped out which must be adhered to if succes is to be theirs. They expected the campaign to last but a couple of ffonths, Now, more than a year later, when Chi. nese resistance has slowed up the scheulde to a point where {it can scarcely be said to work any longer, the Japanese chances of success are becoming smaller and smaller. . THIS WEEK'S QQUESTION -- How many Eskimos are there in the Dominion of Canada? Indians? Answer: 6,000 Eskimos and 123,000 Indians (approximately). EE EE EY EE ET LEX ELIE TELE DELETE NAMES PARTY EXELL LLL DEI IEIE DE TEE TDI La LT ADDL DEL HON. P. M. DEWAN "Through co-operation lies the salvation of Ontario's rural life," is the central theme of our Provin- cial Minister of Agriculture, Hon. P, M. (Patrick Michael) Dewan,. (pronounced to rhyme with "swan"). That farmers should organize in their own interests is the message of this public-spirited Irish-Canadi- an, born a farmer himself (near Os- goode; Ontario) and trained from the earliest age to the problems of a farmer. He has had plenty of ex- perlence in co-operation, too, hav- ing graduated from St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, N.S. (the cradle of co-operation in Can- ada), and from the Ontario Agri- cultural College, Guelph. In 1926 he became manager of the Oxford Co-operative Association, has ad- fe XaxaXexax me NEW Sele vanced it to first rank among such enterprises in Canada, He has also been a successful Secretary-Treas- urer of the Woodstock Agricultural Society. "Educate the People" Always Interested in people and events, Mr. Dewan was inevitably drawn to politics. In 1931 he won a seat on the Woodstock City Coun- cil; in 1934 entered the Ontario Legislature as Liberal member for Oxford; following last autumn's el- ection he was chosen by the Pre- mier as Minister of Agriculture. Mr, Dewan would like to see the mass of our rural people live pros- perous and happy lives. Co-opera- tion, in his fervent belief, would help to bring about that end. His mission is to educate the people to its value; he would like to have a staff of instructors go out into the Province on an educational crusade for the co-operative movement, but in this he is sadly handicapped be- cause the government isn't prepar- ed to spend money on such a pro- ject. (Not only farmers but people generally would benefit by partici- pation in co-operatives, Mr. Dewan says). Wants Wheat Pegged Again, the Minister of Agricul- ture: "If our young people are to continue to live on the farm, rural life must be made attractive to them." At present, Mr. Dewan is urging 'the federal government to set a minimum price for payments to On- tario wheat producers, as well as to western growers." He points out that the -price for" Ontario wheat now ranges from 36¢ to 65c¢, instead .of 80c, per bushel. Warsaw, Poland, now has 66 motion picture theatres. More gold is being mined in Australia than a year ago. - ~ DIARY. ° MRS. PIP'S ' New Brunswick's Silver Salmon 600 Miles of Coastline Provide Rare Sport for Anglers If there is one species in par- ticular to Which the Province of New Brunswick owes its inclusion on the angler's map of the world it is the Atlantic silver salmon, Although small in area when compared with the Central and Western Provinces, New Bruns- wick is blessed with 600 miles of Atlantic coastline. On the south the tides of Fundy lash her shores from Passamaquoddy Bay to the Isthmus of Chignecto. Northum- berland' Strait lies between the New Brunswick east coast and Prince Edward Island; and Bay Chaleur, that inreaching arm of the open Gulf separates the north coast from the Gaspe Peninsula of Quebez.' Patients Arise After Operation Rumanian Surgeon Has Been Successful With New Method Of Treatment -- Believes It Unnecessary to Stay In Bed. In a hospital at Brasov, Rumania, a man was operated on for the re- moval of his appendix. As soon as the operation was completed he got up from the table and acted as as- sistant to the surgeon at the same kind of an operation on the follow- ing patient. This is not an unusual situation at Brasov. Here the great majority of the patients get up from the operating table, dress, walk to their room or out into the garden and remain ambulant instead of go- ing to bed. Dr. Livius Campeanu, surgeon at the hospital, has been working for years under the theory that it is not only unnecessary for patients to remain in bed for long periods of time after an operation, but that it is beneficial for them to walk around. A Psychic Stimulant Since 1934 Dr. Campeanu has performed 3,160 abdominal opera- tions in which the patients left their beds on the day following the operation. Since the beginning of 1937, encouraged by his earlier re- sults, he has had patients, operated on under local anesthetics, get on their feet from the operating table. - When operations are performed under spinal or general anesthesia the patients are on their feet the second day. They return-on the sev- enth or eighth day for removal of stitches. Dr. Campeanu states, according to a report on his work in "The Journal of the American Medical Association," that getting up im- mediately after an operation is a psychic as well as a physical stim- ulant and curtails the duration of disability. Among the 1,300 pati- ents operated on since January, 1937, there have been three deaths, Desert Yields 1848 Skeletons Believed to Be Of Eight Men Who Went on Expedition Into Interior of Australia + The skeletons of eight men, be- lieved to be members of an ex- pedition led by a German explor- er, Friedrich Leichareit, which left Moreton Bay, on the Queensland coast, in 1848, to cross the contin- ent and disappeared in the inter- ior, have been found in the Simp- son Desert in the northern part of South Australia by a ranch-owner while rounding up cattle. Grouped In a Circle Seven of the skeletons were grouped in a circle, suggesting that the men were around a camp- fire when they were surprised by blacks and speared. The eighth skeleton lay two miles away and the presumption is the wounded man fled and later fell exhausted and expired. The expedition was last report- ed at Innaminaka, just over the South Australian border, thirty miles cast of where the skeletons were found. The South Australian Govern- ment is organizing an expedition to examine the skeletons, compris- ing an anthropologist, ethnologist, surveyor and a cinematographer. It is believed that torrential rains probably uncovered the skeletons. Campaign Against Hatless Germans Geruany's Latest Slogan is "Buy a Hat" Hard-up Germans have been economizing and joining the hat- less brigade, with the result that there has been a terrific drop in the sale of hats, Apart from an intensive adver tising campaign, women are being asked not to walk with hatless men. It is "primitive," say the authorities, for a man not to wear a hat, _-- For Seagram Gold Cup Last year, as the cut shows, Ralph Guldahl got his hands on the Seagram Gold Cup but that was all. Lighthorse Harry Cooper, one-time Hamilton boy, got the cup, the $5,000 cash and the Canadian Open Golf the stars as SPATpIpSAID, Now Guldahl is burning up U. S. golf courses, retaining . 8. Open title, winning the Western Open and leading all the golf oint winner of this year. He's one of the biggest threats for this year's Canadian title, to be played at Mississauga-Toronto on Aug- ust 18 to 20. So, for that matter, is Cooper, and there are a hundred other threats, including ace golfers from Bermuda and South Africa, coming for the first time to Canada. "vo hundred empty cotton mills in England have been con- verted into new factories. Brazil companies not to agree to pay losses in foreign currencies, has ordered insurance The ka at Large World Voice of Canada the Press The Empire CANADA MAKE STARLINGS WORK If the starlings present with us in such numbers would only take it into their heads to dine on army worms, their reputation would improve immensely. -- Woodstock Sentinel-Review, WITHOUT THE TURKEY Thanksgiving Day will be held in October again. The great trou- ble with a thanksgiving on that date is that the turkey crop is not ripe while the cranberries are scarce.--Guelph Mercury. TELL THE PLAIN TRUTH We wonder whether it would have a salutary 'effect if the newspapers, instead of calling these deplorable affairs accidents, were to state plainly that someone was the cause of his own death or that of someone else. It might.-- Cornwall Standard-Frecholder. THREE EXPLANATIONS Woman near Belleville has a hen which laid an egg with three yolks in it. Our poultry expert says any one of three things can explain that: (1) the hen does not know how to count, (2) she is a trifle ambitious, or (3) she is short of shells,.--DPeterborough Examin- er. POLL TAX FOR WOMEN Barrie town council has en- dorsed the proposal te make wom- en who carn over $100 a year, subject to the same municipai poll tax as men. There is really no valid reason why there should be any more discrimination between the "sexes in taxation than there is in giving employment. Some day the provincial leg'slators may have courage enough to place both upon equal terms in the matter of poll tax. In the meantime, the fair sex have little cause to worry over the matter.-----DBarrie Examiner. The EMPIRE NO DEATH FOR ME Five hundred and thirty-six people were killed, twenty thous- and seven hundred and eighty- eight injured on the roads last month. These figures will not mean much to you. You know you are a careful driver. You know you walk delicfitely. People read of the casualties on the roads as they used to read of the casual- ties in the war. You always think the other fellow will get it. Never yourself.--Daily Iixpress, London. Youre MISSING something if you have not tried this new fine cut, which has a fla- vour and a smoothness that spells new luxury in roll-your-own smok- ing. It's backed by a name that guarantees quality with nearly a century of experience in the manufacture of fine tobaccos. Try it. Where Dopesters Are Registered There are 30,000 registered opium smokers in the Straits Set- tlements. One is an American, an- other a Belgian, whose names are not mentioned. Then there are 20,600 Chinese with a sprinkling of other Eastern races. The sale of opium is a State monopoly and buyers must regis- ter each purchase, AT THE 'eX' FARMERS AGRICULTURE Champion cattle, A famous horses, magnificent live- stock of every de- scription! See the tremendous farm- implement exhibits with all the latest in- & ventions on display. Watch the judging of champions! od --for thrilled ih. young adventur- ) ers and oldsters! Acroplanes, roller coasters, whip, ? merry - go - round, beautiful girls, intrepid ncrobats, shouting showmen, lights, music, ection, and new features galore. Kingdom Pavilion The history and de- velopment of Brit. ain's transportation > and communica- [i tion routes shown £4 in enthralling dio- 2 ramic form--per- fect working models of ships, cars, planes, trains--from ancient "coracles", and jug the famous "Rocket" locomo- tive built in 1829. ; Write for ticket reservations to Canadian National Exhibition Information Bureau, 8 King St. W. Toronto. GEORGE BRIGDEN Gi ] ELLWOOD A. HUGHES resident General Manager 1879 <> 1958 [| - » My -g STRAT a, - ~~ "ei